Ready, Go
...Ready, Go
If a crossword puzzle clue has to give me writing prompts, then so be it.
I’ll consider myself prompted.
Uncle Wiggly reveals what the Brits call At Sixes & Sevens. But if the man...
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Categories:
polystyrene, allusion, humor, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Light White Clouds
...On summer grass
freshly cut
I lay relaxing looking up at the
subtle slovenly shape shifter
floating above
It steals my mind
and the world disappears
slowly changing
sneaking by
forming froth...
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Categories:
polystyrene, fun, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse
Tistletinium
...thoughtful,keeping in mind how
fortunate he'd be if this actually
worked.New and affordable. Enough
to catch the interest of those interested
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Categories:
polystyrene, business, music, repetition, romantic
Form: Bio
Prelude
...Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body...
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Categories:
polystyrene, angel, art, assonance, beauty,
Form: Blank verse
Rant: Wretched Plastic Everywhere
...There's wretched plastic everywhere
We drop it here, we chuck it there
We landfill it with urgency
We leave it there as legacy
We poison planet once pristine
We now despair of polythene
We see ...
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Categories:
polystyrene, environment, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Cancer
...You creep
like a cat burglar
invading innocent lives
No one knows
you’ve been silently stalking
until you pounce
Sister Susie; sans hair
removes a stylish wig
off a polystyrene model
S...
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Categories:
polystyrene, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Judging Hypocrisy
...Look at you
Oh so fashionably accessorised
In a demi-couture package
In your environmentally conscious style
Playing out ecological homage.
But bright red plastic buttons tinge your dr...
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Categories:
polystyrene, environment, judgement, pollution, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
An Extraordinary Moment
...I just found your last letter to me,
And read it while watching a blazing sunset,
Emulating the happy sun you drew in your letter.
Ten years almost to the day, you killed yourself,
I'm left wit...
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Categories:
polystyrene, absence, loneliness, miss you,
Form: Free verse
The Girl Who Ate the National Park
...Today I present an old poem, written at least a decade before "Doubts". What this poem lacks in poetic format, and style, it reaps in sentiment.
Enjoy:
the Girl Who Ate the National Park
I was pick...
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Categories:
polystyrene, love,
Form: Free verse
A Peculiar Sea
...The polystyrene waves whip the sea of earth on
a Spring tide as the crows nonchalantly look on
patiently waiting for the styrene spray to uncover
the fishes of the dusty dry earth to feed the...
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Categories:
polystyrene, spring, earth,
Form: Free verse
Just Before
...My polystyrene cup of hot chocolate looks back at me peacefully.
I cannot deny the temptation I have to take it in my hands
and look at it for a time.
It looks so comforting and yet I am takin...
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Categories:
polystyrene, food
Form: Free verse
Welcome To the Fake World
...Welcome,
To the fake world,
Enjoy,
The breath - taking nature,
Rubber trees,
With fragrance - free leaves,
All kinds of immortal flowers,
Dipped in all colors of paint, and eternal shine...
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Categories:
polystyrene, imagination,
Form: Free verse